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Mixed-Effects Methods for Search and Matching Research
John M. Abowd, Kevin L. McKinney
We study mixed-effects methods for estimating equations containing person and firm effects. In economics such models are usually estimated using fixed-effects methods. Recent enhan…
Century Statistical Disclosure Limitation: Motivations and Challenges
John M Abowd, Michael B Hawes
This chapter examines the motivations and imperatives for modernizing how statistical agencies approach statistical disclosure limitation for official data product releases. It dis…
Measuring Race in US Economic Statistics: What Do We Know?
Sonya Ravindranath Waddell, John M. Abowd, Camille Busette +1
This article is an edited transcript of the session of the same name at the 38th Annual NABE Economic Policy Conference: Policy Options for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth. The pa…
Male Earnings Volatility in LEHD before, during, and after the Great Recession
Kevin L. McKinney, John M. Abowd
This paper is part of a coordinated collection of papers on prime-age male earnings volatility. Each paper produces a similar set of statistics for the same reference population us…
Total Error and Variability Measures for the Quarterly Workforce Indicators and LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics in OnTheMap
Kevin L. McKinney, Andrew S. Green, Lars Vilhuber +1
We report results from the first comprehensive total quality evaluation of five major indicators in the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Program…
Suboptimal Provision of Privacy and Statistical Accuracy When They are Public Goods
John M. Abowd, Ian M. Schmutte, William Sexton +1
With vast databases at their disposal, private tech companies can compete with public statistical agencies to provide population statistics. However, private companies face differe…
Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy
Simson L. Garfinkel, John M. Abowd, Sarah Powazek
When differential privacy was created more than a decade ago, the motivating example was statistics published by an official statistics agency. In attempting to transition differen…
An Economic Analysis of Privacy Protection and Statistical Accuracy as Social Choices
John M. Abowd, Ian M. Schmutte
Statistical agencies face a dual mandate to publish accurate statistics while protecting respondent privacy. Increasing privacy protection requires decreased accuracy. Recognizing…
Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis for the Federal Statistical Agencies
John Abowd, Lorenzo Alvisi, Cynthia Dwork +3
Government statistical agencies collect enormously valuable data on the nation's population and business activities. Wide access to these data enables evidence-based policy making,…